Rodrigo Pinho at Benfica

Benfica left Moscow with 0-2 triumph over Spartak Moscow in the 1st leg of the 3rd qualifying round of the Champions League.

Soualiho Meïte is a signing of SL Benfica's professional football team until 2026. International with the French youth national teams, he started his career at Auxerre in 2011 and Lille signed him in 2013. He remained linked to the club from the North of France until de end of the 2016/17 season, with a year and a half loan to the Belgians of Zulte Waregem. Next came Monaco and a loan to Bordeaux in the middle of 2017/18. Torino signed him before the start of 2018/19, and the midfielder was in Turin until January 2021, when he completed a loan transfer to AC Milan.

Benfica left Moscow with 0-2 triumph over Spartak Moscow in the 1st leg of the 3rd qualifying round of the Champions League.

The eagles are in Russia for the match against Spartak Moscow for the 1st leg of the 3rd qualifying round of the Champions League. This Tuesday, the reds trained at the venuethe will host the encounter on Wednesday at 6 pm in Mainland Portugal.

The 25 players named by Jorge Jesus and the rest of the Benfica delegation left Lisbon on Monday (August 2) afternoon, led by President Rui Costa, and landed in Moscow in the evening, for the first leg of the 3rd qualifying round of the Champions League against Spartak. The match kicks off at 6 pm (8 pm in the Russian capital) on Wednesday (August 4), at the Spartak Stadium.